Spun Collection

Dressing Shetland Shawls
Women from the Shetland Islands dress Shetland wool shawls on large racks Date: 1908

Sherlock Holmes / Villan
THE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLIST Holmes gets his man: he spun round with a scream & fell upon his back

Spinning Harris Tweed
Production of Harris Tweed. The wool is carded and spun; carding loosens the wool and ensure it is fine enough to spin

Old English Sheepdog turned into wool
An Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owner, who has spun its coat into balls of wool for knitting

Messrs Glasse and Elliott's Atlantic Telegraph Cable Works yard at East Greenwich, London. The 1, 250 tons of telegraphic cable being laid out in five coils to go on-board the H.M.S

First hank of cotton spun by machinery, Birmingham, 1741
A photograph of the first hank of cotton spun by machinery, Birmingham, 1741. Date: 1910

Wool comber using heated wool combs to pull a fine sliver of wool to be spun into yarn. Washed raw wool in a basket, and a clay comb-pot to heat the combs in the foreground

Old English Sheepdog turned into wool, Cornwall
An Old English Sheepdog with its enterprising owners, who spin its longhaired coat into balls of wool for knitting, at home in Mullion, Cornwall. Date: circa 1980s

Irish Home Spun Spinning the Wool in the Glynns of Antrim - woman spinning with spinning wheel outside a thatched cottage with man looking on. (Location: Northern Ireland: County Antrim)

Wool-Comber
A wool comber teasing out a bundle of clean wool on a comb which can then be spun Date: 1827

Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies shirts
Advertisement for Shoolbreds ladies tailor-made shirts, made by expert tailors in the mens shirt department. Materials available are spun silk, taffeta silk, spunella

Reels of woollen thread - Patons & Baldwins
A complex multi-level machine for rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Yarn rolling machine
A lady working at a complex multi-level machine for rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun, at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Muller Automatic Cone-winding machine
A factory worker operates a Muller automatic cone-winding machine, (used for clearing and winding single-spun yarns) at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Wool spinning - Patons & Baldwins
A view looking down a machine rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Checking blue woollen threads
A factory worker checks a machine rolling dark blue yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Muller Automatic Cone-winder
A factory worker operates a Muller automatic cone-winding machine, (used for clearing and winding single-spun yarns) at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

A Machine Collects Woollen Thread on spools
A factory worker checks a machine rolling yarn onto circular spools, after the wool has been industrially spun at Patons & Baldwins factory in Darlington

Toys / Russia / Tops / C19Th
A crowd gathers to watch a spinning top being spun

Mania / Caught in Web
Rash investors caught in the web spun by the railway projectors with their fabulous schemes

Mariner, Boat Spun Round
The rescue boat gets caught up in the whirlpool created by the sinking ship: Upon the whirl where sank the ship, The boat spun round and round

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